Chapter 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal

      This chapter on the great depression really hit home. It reminded me of the time Wall Street crashed and everybody kept telling me to get ready for the depression part two. After briefly reading about these people had to go through, I hope to never have to go through it. It’s saddening to read about how some people couldn’t deal with the depression and their only option was to commit suicide. Some ideas that I couldn’t stop thinking about while reading this chapter was how similar Obama is to Roosevelt. I understand that since they’re both Democrats they would both have similar ideals and passion but reading about how they both had to clean up the mess of the prior president. Obama and Roosevelt came in at a time where US citizens needed a change and being new Presidents they were expected to fix whatever problem they are dealing with now. In a way I felt like it was a bad timing for both Obama and Roosevelt to come into office because if they bring change and it doesn’t work out they would be rejected by the citizens. But if they a change that’s too big and drastic some people may not want to be involved because they’re afraid of change. Being the cleanup crew has got to be the worst situation ever because you can face backlash whether you succeed or not.